This is an important topic to a lot of entrepreneurs, and it’s one that we plan to cover a lot more throughout 2019.

Some of the opinions we shared in that episode were rather controversial. Several of our listeners actually called us out on being a little bit vague about our thoughts, and we thought it was a good chance to revisit the topic.

One of the people that reached out to us about that episode was Rob Walling.

Rob is someone who should be very familiar to the listeners of this show.

He hosts one of our favorite podcasts, Startups for the Rest of Us, organizes his own annual conference called MicroConf, and has previously owned and sold several startups, including a Software-as-a-Service company called Drip.

Rob has also recently started his own startup accelerator fund called TinySeed, which is specifically designed to help bootstrappers grow their businesses.

On today’s show, Rob has joined us to share his thoughts about venture capital, bootstrapping, and what he hopes to accomplish with TinySeed.

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Hi Dan and Ian, this podcast is the first one not showing up in my RSS feed for download from tropicalmba. I think it’s because you host it now externally. And trying to download from a mobile browser just starts playing the podcast instead of a file download (needed for offline listening).
I think this is related to TMBA479, the wallet garden. It’s easier to host externally, and you give away control.

Hey Marc thanks for the heads up, we’re working through this today and hopefully will have it fixed shortly.

Lee

Another great pod! Tiny Seed sounds like it provides value in the space between boot strapping and VC. Looking forward to you guys discussing this more in the future. Your perspective as a successful founder is valuable to those starting out.